Young normal-hearing listeners, elderly normal-hearing listeners, and elderly hearing-impaired listeners were tested on a variety of phonetic identification tasks. Where identity was cued by stimulus duration, the elderly hearing-impaired listeners evidenced normal identification functions. On a task in which there were multiple cues to vowel identity, performance was also normal. On a/b d g/id...

Hearing aids are devices used by hearing impaired people to compensate hearing losses. Digital hearing aids are better in performance over the analog hearing aids, since analog hearing aids work as amplifier. Digital hearing aids are programmable to adjust the gain value, enhance signal to noise ratio, reduction in noise, feedback cancellation etc . In the present work, study of digital hearing...

This research is a case study, but it has the possibility to make Web Accessibility guidelines for the hearing-impaired. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by W3C suggests "Provide non-text equivalents of text“. We suppose this guideline is applicable to the hearing-impaired people. Our research expanded W3C's guidelines to specify that the "non text equivalents" convey a significant meaning ...

The prevalence of schizophrenia among hearing impaired is nearly equal to that of the general population [1]. Both bilateral and unilateral auditory hallucinations in hearing impaired are thought to predispose them to develop schizophrenia [2]. Auditory hallucinations in patients with normal hearing may inadequately respond to antipsychotic medication [3]. There is no report that hallucinations...

BACKGROUND/AIM Almost 200 cochlear implantations were done in the four centers (two in Belgrade, per one in Novi Sad and Nis) in Serbia from 2002 to 2009. Less than 10% of implantees were postlingually deaf adults. The vast majority, i.e. 90% were pre- and perilingually profoundly deaf children. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of improved auditory perception due to cochlear im...

The present study provides comparative evaluation of the ABR and MLR to 1 kHz brief tones in two groups of hearing-impaired subjects (noise-masked normally-hearing; and sensorineurally hearing-impaired adults), as well as a normally-hearing control group. Tones were presented at intensities from threshold to 80 /90 dB nHL. The results of this study show that: (1) the ABR and MLR to these low-fr...

The main point of our study was to examine the vocabulary knowledge of pupils in grades 3-6, and in particular the relative reading vocabulary disadvantage of hearing-impaired pupils. The achievements of 394 pupils with normal hearing and 106 pupils with a hearing impairment were examined on two vocabulary assessment tasks: a lexical decision task and a use decision task. The target words in bo...